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...before the deadline he had set for its destruction last week, U. S. correspondents and cameramen leaped into any kind of car they could hire at Shanghai, tore off over 160 miles of road so rough that a jagged rock punctured the crankcase of one car. Nimbly the Chinese chauffeur repaired it with a piece of chamois skin and a can opener, dashed on with his cargo of foreign devils bound for the scene of advertised atrocities...
During the school year, the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants, with typing jobs, entertainment positions, chore work, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur posts, delivery work, and window washing, following in order. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modelling for artists, or directing traffic...
...instead of her, when Hugh Johnson said of him: "He is a man." At least once she drew herself up in dignity and said, "Now, now Mr. McGrady, I'm the Secretary of La. bor." Not until last week did Ed McGrady finally get the automobile and chauffeur which are routine perquisites of his office. He promptly turned them over to one of Madam Perkins' favorites, Statistician Isador Lubin...
Wondering if it were permissible to shoot ferocious screech owls, North Tarrytown police telephoned a State game warden, failed to find him at home. Few minutes later an unemployed chauffeur reported that he had been attacked by two owls at the scene of Mrs. Newell's encounter but had escaped injury by sprinting and beating at the birds with his hands. Without further concern for the law, a patrolman was sent with a shotgun to the spot, which is opposite the Pocantico Hills estate of the late John D. Rockefeller. The policeman killed one owl, was joined...
...after the deaths of three popular dogs of suburban Eastchester, N. Y. last month (TIME. May 31). But at her trial last week, other evidence darkened the picture. Found near the spot where she had approached the dogs was a capsule which had contained cyanide of potassium. A former chauffeur of hers testified he had resigned "in disgust" because she used to have him stop the car while she got out to give capsules to stray cats. When the cats keeled over she would deliver them to an S. P. C. A. shelter. "She handled as many as 30 cats...